Lightwave import AVI problem, please help!

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Lightwave import AVI problem, please help!

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Hi,

I've just had to wipe my harddrive & re-install everything.
I've just re-installed Lightwave 7.5 & started to work on a simple scene.
I click on the scene tab, then on the compositing tab & select load image from the background image dropdown menu. When in the file browser, i select all files so my movies will show up & then select my footage. Thats how i've always done it & it always worked until now. Lightwave seems to just refuse to load the footage!

It'll load compressed Quicktime stuff but not my AVI DV footage, so i thought it could be how i've captured it but previous footage that would import into Lightwave no longer does.

The Avi's play fine in Window media player so i think i have the codec...

Please help as i'm a bit stuck.

Mushi
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Post by Mushiman »

I've done it!!

After re-installing Lightwave again nothing changed, so i sat & thought of what i had on my system before i formatted the hard-drive.
It was Pinnacle studio for my old DC10+ capture card. I installed that & hey presto it works, even though the footage was captured through a firewire card & not the analogue DC10. Strange.

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Lol! The madness of computers...
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Post by Matt »

Glad you got it sorted out. I think we've all been there and done that. Somethings things just work and its not worth worrying why !!
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